On Monday, I floated the idea that striking writers should execute an entertainment version of the old "strike paper" concept and produce nightly online monologues for the comedy-news starved populace. Others subsequently floated similar proposals. But absent such a viral video monologue revolution, how will Americans grasp the absurdity and hypocrisy of politics just as the campaign season kicks into high gear? (Well, there are always political blogs--but who reads those or listens to their spiritual cousin, CNN's Jack Cafferty?) So now Sen. Larry Craig can pursue the appeal of his guilty plea and host Super Tuber cookouts without a care in the world/Frank Sennett, Hard 7.
Question: Would you be clever enough to write a Craig gag for a Leno or Letterman monologue?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
striking writers should execute an entertainment version of the old "strike paper" concept and produce nightly online monologues for the comedy-news starved populace. Others subsequently floated similar proposals. But absent such a viral video monologue revolution, how will Americans grasp the absurdity and hypocrisy of politics just as the campaign season kicks into high gear? (Well, there are always political blogs--but who reads those or listens to their spiritual cousin, CNN's Jack Cafferty?) So now Sen. Larry Craig can pursue the appeal of his guilty plea and host Super Tuber cookouts without a care in the world/Frank Sennett, Hard 7.
